Shunde Xian Ji hunted a fish and wanted to find someone to discipline him.
The story of the Nine-Tailed Fox Imperial Spirit Master and a big-tailed fish began.
Today, Di Lieba partnered with Ren Jialun, Zhu Ruibin as the general director, and Li Jingling as the chief screenwriter of the costume drama "Acquaintance with Junchu" was officially launched. The drama is adapted from Jiulu Feixiang's work "The Tale of the Taming fish", and the novel has been rated as "2019 Top Ten Most Concerned Fantasy IPs". It tells the story between Ji Yunhe (Di Li Reba), a royal spirit master who wants to get rid of the control of the Lord of the Valley of Flowers, and the simple and kind Shizi Changyi (Ren Jialun), the simple and kind fish.
As we all know, the competition in the costume market is fierce, and the setting of the Imperial Spirit Master and the Son of the Fish People needs a huge world view as a support, and if you want to complete a new exploration, from the concept landing to the theme value expression, "Acquaintance with Junchu" is facing no small challenge.
Judging from the several episodes broadcast on the first day, the collision and fusion of "shape" and "god" have opened a new attempt to open up the costume theme for "Acquaintance with Junchu" and laid a solid market.
Outline the "shape"
The construction of a large story framework helps the formation of a worldview
The outline of "shape" tests the production team's laying out of the story framework, the main line branch line and the establishment of the world view.
Looking at the production team of "Acquaintance with Junchu", the general director Zhu Ruibin is a veteran in the field of costumes. Summarizing his previous works, the full and three-dimensional character shaping, the inheritance of grand values and ideas from the individual to the whole, and the laying out of a large number of details to support the dense plot clues are all important core advantages of his costume works.
In "Acquaintance with Junchu", the production team led by him has made great efforts in building a story framework, advancing the conception of the story line, and laying out a grand world view. The main scene of "Acquaintance with Junchu" is the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, where the Heavenly Spirit Master Qiangzhi is located, with the heavenly realm and the earthly world below. Therefore, in terms of a wider range of themes, costume-themed dramas with virtual mythological backgrounds, if they do not have enough rich main lines and side plot lines as support, are easy to evolve into love stories with colorful shells.
"Acquaintance with Junchu" obviously knows this.
When deconstructing the story, "Acquaintance with Junchu" chooses a fast and rhythmic advance rather than a slow laying of traditional storytelling. The Imperial Spirit Master Ji Yunhe purposefully showed his kindness to the elder of the Kunren Shizi, and in the process, the two went from being on guard against each other, to knowing each other and falling in love, going through ups and downs, working together to overcome difficulties, and finally being able to protect each other and Cangsheng. From the individual to the whole, a "training" from the Valley of Flowers is built, and the struggle in the divine realm is introduced, involved in thinking about human nature, the collective and equality, and the overall plot progresses quickly and rhythmically.
The three-dimensional and plump side plot outside the main line is also unlocking and enriching the side characters in a detailed and unsound way. Lin Canglan, the lord of the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers, and his son Lin Haoqing, the former is the violent valley lord who treats his son harshly for the sake of power and tortures his adopted daughter, and the latter is the heir of the valley lord under the expectation and suppression of his father. "Acquaintance with Junchu" in the portrayal of these two characters, from the surface and the inside, without losing thickness.
Lin Canglan, on the surface, has a lot of love for Ji Yunhe, but in fact, he is fierce, torturing and controlling her in the name of rewards, and he is superficially dissatisfied with his son, but in fact he has high hopes, and even does not hesitate to force his son to "become a talent". The image of a stubborn and fierce but beloved son was established. There are also arrogant and paranoid Shunde Xianji, the smart and cute Luo Jinsang who does not abandon Ji Yunhe, and then to the cold-faced master Xue March, the lynx clan Shizi of zhien Tubao, etc. In terms of perception, the overall plot line has a luxuriant ratio of large branches and small branches.
The direction of a variety of clues boosts the grand world view construction in "Acquaintance with Junchu", and also improves the audience's expectations for the follow-up plot - rich clues, many characters but not chaotic, and the plot rhythm is not delayed, how can people not be curious about the sentence in the trailer: "Those who cross this cliff tonight, curse!" "What happened before and after?
To sum up, "Acquaintance with Junchu" has now shown a good "shape" outline. In the construction of the story line, the clues are rich, the characters are not chaotic, and the plot rhythm is not delayed; in the narrative, the multiple lines are parallel and the layers are deep. The framework is clear, and the "shape" of the fictional background is logically established.
Writing "God" in "Form"
Sublimate the theme value expression
The "form" has been formed, but what about the "God"?
From the protagonist setting to the group portrait portrayal, the most direct touch and breakthrough in the expression of "God" in "Acquaintance with Junchu" comes from its depiction of the female power.
From the perspective of the heroine Ji Yunhe's personality, the sense of strength, is the most intuitive feeling transmitted to the audience by the role of Ji Yunhe. As described in the text of the novel, "she has been fighting with fate for the dominance of her life, winning and losing, but not giving up."
Ji Yunhe, played by Di Li Reba, is controlled by the valley lord with poison and trapped in the Imperial Spirit Master of the Valley of Thousand Flowers. The freedom she cannot ask for is the goal that she has long endured all her life. Such a big heroine, how is "Acquaintance with Junchu" portrayed?
The overall image design of the external performance is mainly based on the neat and refreshing perception transmission, which strengthens the attribute of high skill; the internal emotional expression portrayal uses stoicism and kindness as a supplement to the character's emotions. Coupled with the neat play, the scene of the knife falling in the hand, and the resolute eyes of Di Lieba, the image of a "heroine" in the strife jumped on the screen. From the table and the inside, "Acquaintance with Junchu" depicts a heroine who has courage and strategy, will compromise but has a bottom line.
In the design of literary drama, it also paved the way for the character of the character. For the tortured Ji Yunhe, freedom is the goal she is struggling to pursue, but she has always had the principles she insists on. When she knew that it was a trap, but she still risked her life to save people and said the sentence "the bottom line is life", she took the first step of communication. At the same time, she also began to truly "yuyu" - both a royal fish, but also a game of whether she can abandon the principle and the bottom line in order to achieve the goal. Ji Yunhe, who is bent on pursuing freedom and is good at attacking his heart, is aimed at a simple worldly dispute that does not involve much in the long-term intentions of a fishman. In addition to the dramatic conflict, it also adds a thickness for the protagonist's growth line to think about.
In order to complete the task, Ji Yunhe needs to "stop at nothing" to impress Changyi's heart. Soft and hard, really sandwiched with deception, the joy of mission achievement mixed with the guilt and hesitation that repeatedly hit the heart because of deception. The two of them started from "lies" to the "Royal Fish" who exchanged their hearts for their hearts, which was actually the only way for Ji Yunhe and Changyi to grow hand in hand.
On the basis of "shape", the theme value transmission is clear and powerful, and the protagonist is set up, which completely depicts a "god" rhyme expression chart for "Acquaintance with Junchu".
epilogue
The protagonist is forced by the environment to make a choice to break through himself, from the choice of right and wrong faced by individual characters, relying on the theme expression with a clear context, with a small view of the big, mapped to the contemporary present us. Young girls and teenagers need to go through choices and challenges in order to truly grow into a "hero" who is independent, and "Acquaintance with Junchu" builds a larger pattern while also opening up a new path for the theme of costume-themed dramas.
And as the plot continues to advance, the grand Cangsheng Picture Book is still slowly unfolding. What kind of challenges and bittersweets will the Imperial Spirit Master Ji Yunhe and her Dragon Ancestor Shizi encounter in the pursuit of self-freedom, the fulfillment of their mission and the struggle against the evil forces? Worth looking forward to.